The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-22
AN IDYL NEAR ITS END.
Two Lovers Whose Dream Will be
Rudely Broken.
From The Nc.o YorI. 2:nses.

her ocean voyage ended, steamed majesti-
cally up tho Bay through tie twilight last
.,,a.ng. II Little GroGp of three on the for
ware! main deci: made picture which in
.r,fta of tine circumstances was very pathetic.
the man was Il tall, square-framed German
If IS. with Light curly hair closely clipped,
Line eyes. and light lpoustache He was
neatly dressed IL n dark gray travelling suit
and wore close-fitting skull cap of black
SILK His manner was quiet and refined, and
changed into evident tenderness whenever
he addressed the woman at his side.
She was short, dark and happy-faced. If
the man was So she was 50. Her eyes were
bright her look intelligent, and she smiled
a treat deal She was clad in a navy-blue
fr3yeling suit, was bareheaded, and wore
cold chain about her collar. Whom she was
not looking tenderly into the eyes of the
man she was fondling child.
The child, to which each seemed equally
devoted, was wonderfully pretty. 1t was
little girl years Old 1t had dark eyes,
dainty Scotch cap, a little light blue waist
and skirt, very finely finished, and round,
chubby arms and legs which We're evidently
deemed too pretty to cover up, for they
were bare to the shoulders and knees.
As the sun set the panorama along shore
grew dim and the opal and azure faded into
deep rose, then to purple, and finally into
fine dark. The trio still stood by the for
ward railing The mans arm was about
the womau's waist The woman's eyes as
she stood silent glanced upward now into
his and now through the shrouds and the
RIGGING at great bright star that had come
INTO the sky. Her mind was evidently in
tent on new love, new life, and new
land that was opening before them.
Neither of them knew that a few feet dis
tant, Oh either side, were two officers of the
i,,~,,. i
only biding their time to ruthlessly shatter
their air castles with search warrant and
n writ
For the mans name was not, as his fellow
passengers supposed, Jean J. Verdongen.
The woman was not his wife, but another
mans. The beautiful child was practically
a theft And the man was charged with
being fugitive from justice, with $1,000
horins of stolen money concealed in his
effects
For several days past the two have
kept the cables vibrating most busily. The
Kingdom of Holland has been stirred to a
most unwonted degree, and its foreign office
has exhibited something so nearly approach
ing activity as to break all previous records.
If the Dutch are quiet people they are
very respectable. When, therefore, real
citizen of their own stole another mans
wife. and his child, and fortune, which in
Dutch measurement rivals Jay Gould's, it
was no wonder that the court was perturb-
ed. At any rate, on Sunday last Consul Gen
era Plantin, the local representative of the
Dutch government, received the following
cable dispatch marked with an "R -
which meant royal instructions" and al
most induced him to put on his uniform be-
fore he broke the seal:
THE HAGUE, July 10.
TimeleSs NeU York:
of Boxtel, left her husband with Jules Van Doc
rem, linen manufacturer carrying off $4,000 flor
ms and her daughter Elsa Van Heyst three
years old. They left Antwerp July 2 steamer
WeSternland Red Star Line for New York ticket
No 5,416, under names: Mr.. and Mrs Jean J.
Verdongen, with their child Jeanette" Please
try to stop the child in the name of the father,
who will come to take charge of it. Wire result.
KARNEBEEK.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Boxtel is a small city in Holland on the
shore of the North Sea. Its chief import
ance is due to the fact that it is a railroad
center for half dozen different lines. From
it one can go direct to almost any part of
Holland, Belgium or Antwerp. Van Heyst
is banker there and a man of large wealth
and local Importance. Hehas been married
some SIX years.
- How long the idyl, which will be inter
@red with by the Deputy Sheriffs to-mor-
row, has been in progress nobody seems GER
tain, 1t is ouly known that about noon on
July Banker Van Heyst went home, but
found both his wife and daughter absent
They did not return that night, and his sus-
plclonS led him to examine a private safe in
his treasury. Fifty thousand horins, which
had been temporarily placed there, We're
missing An investigation indicated that
the wife had departed for an indefinite
period. The detectives traced her after
much inquiry to Antwerp, for which place
she took the train at s a. IN. on the morning
OF June = 1t then developed that Van
Dooren was also missing and the description
left no doubt that jean j. Verdongen,n his
wife and child were the fugitives. Van
tieySt instantly interested the government
officials and the dispatch was the result
Consul Platin Immediately placed the case
IN the hands of p. j. Joachimsen, who, with
Morris Goodhart, attends to all legal mat
terS III connection with the consulate. For
TWO days those gentlemen have been intense
y active. The problem to be met was a
somewhat unusual one, since every precau-
non taken for New York had to be taken
Tor New Jersey, there being no means of de-
termining which State the steamer would
De IN when the deputy sheriffs would be al
lowed to board her
First, Henry Van Oldermeel. acting as
agent for Joseph Van Heyst, brought suit
against Van Dooren to recover $50, 900 in
money alleged to have been wrongfully con-
Verted, Next preparations were made for
Vhe Issuance of writ of habees corpus to
secure the child the moment the parties
should refuse to give her up. Preparations
similar to these were made at Jersey City
eX-GoV. Albeit being retained to supervise
all the preparations. Furthermore, war
rant was made ready for issuance charging
van DooTen, under the New Jersey law,
VIII VIII bringing stolen property into the State.
me consequence was that when the West
erIland approached her dock at Jersey City
last evening the dock was simply lined with
huiiBry officials laden with documents and
papers of the most sinister kind, all directed
~ y, tne uneasy man, the pretty woman, and
Clle little child who had come 5000 miles
only TO fall helplessly into the hopper of the
Jaw. And the ludicrous part of the affair |
was That the vessel did not reach her dock, |
Dut anchored in the stream. and the service |
Oh all papers had to be postponed till this |
Inc situation on board, however, was !
most peculiar. The man, though uneasy, |
was ocular. The woman prattled III Ger |
Hal-Shc does not speak English-in entire |
innocence OF her surroundings An yet half |
oozen officers around them We're in full |
possession OF q secret which they imagined |
1Ihey had left behind them in Holland. |
Olliy revenue officers and u. s. Marshals |
were On board. The State court deputies |
were 70 serve the papers, consequently moth
ing N The least betraying the secret was
Permitted TO be breathed to the man or the |